QuicKasting the entire Pitchfork Music Festival taught us that we’re capable of working with several other brand new technologies and companies out there.

First of all, if you’re out in the middle of a park, how are you going to get Internet? We found a highly capable group of engineers at Hot Point Wireless that gave us a cutting edge wireless setup bouncing a signal off of Chicago’s Hancock Tower.

If you’re live streaming to a large audience with a high bitrate, you’re going to need more upload bandwidth to support a higher quality stream. How are you going to get that in the middle of a park? Hot Point provided wireless connectivity to the park, but we preferred a wired connection to send the precious stream through the Neokast Media Network. MyAtmosphere was particularly helpful in connecting their extremely powerful backend to the Hot Point Wireless to give us a great wired connection with great upload bandwidth.

So now you have the Internet ready and you’re ready to stream. How do you get the signal at a music festival? Optimus Video Production was responsible for the filming of the concert.

Last but not least, where is the regular video signal going? GoVision took the Optimus signal and routed it to their giant TV screens. Neokast got in between that routed signal and gave the entire world the chance to see what the rest of the Pitchfork Music Festival saw through the TV screens.

So there you have it. Three nascent technologies combined with two excellent companies involved in regular video production joined forces to deliver an uncanny live stream to the entire world on the Pitchfork Music Festival website.

We’re now ready to take on new and better challenges and of course empower you to stream yourself with Neokast QuicKast.

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